The latest State Bank report exposes the regime’s tall claims regarding improved foreign exchange reserves and reduced trade deficit, because of foreign investment. The main reason behind the recent large inflow of dollars is foreign investment in treasury bills, which were offered for three months at one of the world’s highest interest rates currently, 13.6 percent.

Debate has erupted in Pakistan’s social media over a 7 December 2019 tweet of a video of the serving naval chief calling for Islamic global dominance. Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi declared that Pakistan can be the starting point for the return of global Islamic glory, adding that Muslims dominated the world through Islam, whilst Europeans established dominance through the rejection of religion. Indeed, the call for the dominance of the…

Whether General Bajwa remains as army chief or not, destructive and humiliating colonialist slavery will not be sent home, in the aftermath of the current, cheap power play. The polluted well will never be cleaned, no matter how much water is drawn, until the rotting corpse of colonialism is removed from within it.

Imran Khan’s enthusiastically tweeted on 19 November 2019 that “Pakistan economy finally heading in right direction,” citing the improvement in the Current Account Deficit (CAD) as an evidence. The CAD exists when the value of imported goods and services, exceeds the value of exports.